αἶνος, ὁ,
(αἰνέω) poetry and Ionic dialect word, tale, story, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.652, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.508, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 534 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; αἰνεῖν αἶνον to tell a tale, [[ [prev. author] “Ag.” 1483 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1380] Refs 5th c.BC+]: especially story with moral, fable, [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 202, 7th c.BC: Archilochus Lyricus 86, 89; ἄκουε δὴ τὸν αἶνον 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Iambi” 1.211] Refs 8th c.BC+]: generally, saying, proverb, παλαιὸς αἶ.[[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 508, compare 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 14.43] Refs 5th c.BC+]; riddle, [[ Carm.Pop. 34. ] Refs]
__II = Attic dialect ἔπαινος, praise, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.795, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 21.110, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 1.6; ἐπιτύμβιος αἶ. 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1547, compare 780, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 707 (all Lyric poetry); ἄξιος αἴνου μεγάλου 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.107 (variant{ἐπαίνου}),cf. LXX.Psa.8.2, +others, NT.Luke.18.43. ] NT+8th c.BC+]
__III decree, resolution, τῶν Ἀχαιῶν[[ “IG” 4.926 (Epid.)] Refs]; κατ᾽ αἶνον, opposed to κατὰ ψήφισμα, [[ “SIG” 672.15 (Delph.), compare “Etymologicum Magnum” 36.16.] Refs]